Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize
the supply chain, today announced recipients of the 2014 Logility
Leadership Awards. This year American Hotel Register, Caribou Coffee,
Gear for Sports, Johnstone Supply, and Massimo Zanetti Beverage were
recognized at Logility Connections 2014 for driving outstanding supply
chain performance through the use of Logility Voyager Solutions™.
For photos of the award winners, please visit: www.logility.com/sails.
Logility’s annual award program recognizes a select group of companies
who significantly improved their business processes, deployed an
innovative solution to address their supply chain challenges, or
demonstrated an on-going commitment and leadership role in the expansion
of supply chain improvements. Each of this year’s award recipients
demonstrated success in building collaboration, efficiency and
visibility across their supply chain networks. These efforts resulted in
tangible business benefits including driving a robust sales and
operations planning (S&OP) process, reduced inventory, increased
forecast accuracy, and higher customer service levels through the
innovative use of supply chain software from Logility.
American Hotel Register Company
American Hotel Register Company is a privately held and family-owned
distributor of hospitality products founded in 1865. The company
operates seven distribution centers throughout the United States with
3PLs located in Canada, Hawaii and Puerto Rico handling more than 35,000
item/DC locations from 600 suppliers. Prior to implementing Logility,
American Hotel Register Company relied upon disconnected systems and
spreadsheets to manage its forecast and buying decisions. Since turning
to Logility Voyager Solutions, American Hotel Register Company has
reduced forecast error significantly, is able to quickly analyze
multiple business scenarios, improved its buying process automating more
than 90 percent of its orders, and established the data necessary for a
formal S&OP process. The company is also able to work more closely with
its partners and merchants to identify trends and ensure they stay ahead
of the market to offer the latest products to its customers.
Caribou Coffee
In order to deliver innovative new offerings, support its impressive
global growth, and be flexible enough to ensure the right products are
available based on changing consumer preferences, Caribou Coffee’s
supply chain planning process needed an overhaul. The coffeehouse
operator turned to Logility to support its aggressive growth initiatives
across its three channels of business retail coffeehouses,
franchise/licensee and commercial. Within a short period Caribou Coffee
realized impressive results including an increase in inventory turns by
approximately 30 percent, while keeping the company’s fulfillment
service to above 99 percent and significantly reducing obsolete
inventory across its operations. The advanced supply chain solutions
have enabled Caribou Coffee to manage with more accuracy and
responsiveness, allowing for a complete transition from monthly to
weekly demand planning and forecasting.
Gear for Sports
As pioneers in the custom decorated apparel industry, Gear for Sports
improved and simplified its planning process with Logility Voyager
Solutions to eliminate numerous spreadsheets and conflicting data
sources. The supply chain organization is now able to collaborate with
partners utilizing accurate data to fuel proactive decision making,
build financial plans and forecasts, and support inventory flow. As part
of its supply chain transformation, Gear for Sports reduced its peak
season inventory by 21 percent and slashed peak season obsolete
inventory by 32 percent while improving overall inventory turns 16
percent. In a short period of time, Gear for Sports went from reactive,
manually intensive processes to an integrated, flexible and proactive
supply chain built to support the company’s long-term growth.
Johnstone Supply, Inc.
The wholesale distribution industry faces several challenges including
shrinking margins, broad product portfolios, new competitors, and
demanding customers. Johnstone Supply, the leading cooperative wholesale
distributor in the HVACR industry with more than $1.5 billion in annual
sales, must deliver exceptional service at the right price to retain and
grow its customer base. The team at Johnstone Supply realized its
technology and processes were holding them back by not providing the
visibility required to balance its inventory while reducing costs and
improve service. With Logility Voyager Solutions in place, the wholesale
distributor has removed $7 million in safety stock inventory, while
reducing stock outages by up to 27 percent and considerably improving
its ability to plan for and execute seasonal lifts in demand. Logility
Voyager Solutions has helped drive more accurate forecasts, align
inventory policies with service goals and streamline collaboration with
its suppliers.
Massimo Zanetti Beverage
Massimo Zanetti Beverage is a 100-plus year old vertically integrated
coffee company headquartered in Treviso, Italy with twelve roasting
plants to support more than 600 coffee shops and 100 Puccino’s
restaurants around the world. Massimo Zanetti Beverage also offers both
branded and private label products, with a greater than 40 percent share
of the U.S. private label business. To support its strategic goal of
profitable growth, the company realized it needed to better align its
production plan and resources to increase asset and labor resource
utilization, improve its agility to respond to increased supply chain
complexities, provide a consistent long-term plan for raw materials,
support the reduction in slow and obsolete inventory, and streamline the
planning cycle. In less than six months of implementing Logility Voyager
Solutions, Massimo Zanetti Beverage decreased planning cycle time by 66
percent, increased inventory turns, reduced inventory 14 percent, and is
now able to produce multiple “what-if” scenarios to generate optimal
plans and stay ahead of changes in its global supply chain.
“Today’s complex global supply chains require innovative thinking,
supporting processes and solutions to stay ahead of changing customer
demands and dynamic sourcing and production options,” said Mike
Edenfield, president and CEO of Logility. “We are honored to recognize
these five companies as recipients of the 2014 Logility SAILS Leadership
Award. Each organization has overcome complex obstacles and demonstrated
impressive results. We are proud to be a part of their success and look
forward to supporting their continued journey of supply excellence.”
About Logility Voyager Solutions
Recognized industry-wide for its rapid implementation, quick ROI,
ease-of-use, and ability to solve complex problems, Logility Voyager
Solutions is a comprehensive supply chain solution suite which features
performance monitoring capabilities to increase supply chain visibility
and boost performance in key areas including demand, inventory and
replenishment planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP),
manufacturing planning and scheduling, supply and inventory
optimization, transportation planning and management, and warehouse
management.
About Logility
With more than 1,250 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider
of collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain solutions that help small,
medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line
results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply
chain management solution that features a performance monitoring
architecture and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and
replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); supply and
inventory optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling;
transportation planning and management; and warehouse management.
Logility customers include Fender Musical Instruments, Parker Hannifin,
Verizon Wireless, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned
subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more
information about Logility, call 800-762-5207 USA or visit http://www.logility.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are
subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. There are a number of
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
anticipated by statements made herein. These factors include, but are
not limited to, continuing U.S. and global economic uncertainty, the
timing and degree of business recovery, unpredictability and the
irregular pattern of future revenues, dependence on particular market
segments or customers, competitive pressures, delays, product liability
and warranty claims and other risks associated with new product
development, undetected software errors, market acceptance of Logility’s
products, technological complexity, the challenges and risks associated
with integration of acquired product lines, companies and services, as
well as a number of other risk factors that could affect the Company’s
future performance. For further information about risks the Company and
American Software could experience as well as other information, please
refer to American Software, Inc’s. current Form 10-K and other reports
and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. For more information, contact: Vincent C.
Klinges, Chief Financial Officer, American Software, Inc., (404)
264-5477 or fax: (404) 237-8868.
Logility is a registered trademark and Logility Voyager Solutions is
a trademark of Logility, Inc. Other products mentioned in this document
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